Understanding the Launch Scan After Update option

This article explains how the Launch Scan After Update functionality works for the Anti-Virus component.

The Anti-Virus scanner will enumerate all running processes and find their executables on the disk. Each executable file on the disk is then scanned, and if an infection is found, a real-time scanning alert is generated. This feature is similar to real-time scanning that scans files on disk before they are opened or executed. The difference here is that it is scanning executable files of processes that are already running.